Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ladies drew near him, however, so Captain Frankau proceeded to relate a "joke" which connoisseurs present declared was both ancient, somewhat pointless and entirely offensive. In London, hearing this news and wondering how "that little writer chap" had ever been mistaken in the States for an official Conservative representative, Conservatives were irked...
Lungs. The lungs have become the seventh most frequent locale for cancer. (First is the stomach; second the uterus; third the breast.) The lung type has often been mistaken for tuberculosis or other diseases. The mistake is excusable, for the symptoms of cancer, which may be nodular, infiltrating and diffuse or miliary, resemble in some respects those of acute and chronic tuberculosis, fibroid phthisis, fibroid pleurisy, unresolved pneumonia, syphilis of the lungs, mucoses of the lungs, bronchiectasis, interlobar empyema, abscess of the lungs and enlargements and tumors common to the mediastinum. Of cancer of the lungs the constant symptoms seem...
...mind, at least, the best bit of acting is done by the unsung supers, the Tsarist officers, in a scene at an Inn. The princess, mistaken for a peasant girl has been given over, unknowingly, by her fiance, the prince, to the officers of his guard. DeMille has the officers seated around a table, snatching here and there at the girl's clothes, until, so well do the faces of the extras register, that one is led to believe, without seeing the princess, that she has very few clothes covering...
...Secretary Sanders was mistaken. The President did not have indigestion. Shortly after four o'clock he strolled back to the executive offices. He canceled his engagements that morning, he said, because of a slight cold. Having napped, he felt much better...
...Patterson, President of Liberty: "Some seem to hold a mistaken impression that this narrative . . . 'The Heartbreak of a Queen'. . . in some way reflects upon the late Queen Alexandra. Nothing could be farther from the fact...